not going to happen, if you listen to senator jeff sessions, who said we have to do home homework. he's putting it four days away is the fiscal cliff. >> alisyn: crazy talk that they want to read it before ratifying it. he says it has to happen by thursday, obviously sooner than we thought. let's listen. >> we're about to come back in next week, thursday, maybe they'll try to finish thursday, maybe go into friday. but we do not need to have a serious matter involving more than a trillion dollars of united states taxpayers' money dropped on the senate next thursday without us having been able to read it and analyze it and having it scored and be expected to rubber stamp it like the old communist parliament in russia. >> this was news to me that congress reads these bills. i was surprised that that's something that occurs. it's a novel idea. >> in a case like this, not only do they read it, they have to get a cbo score to make sure it's going to reach the debt limit or the price they're talking about, being $4 trillion over ten years. the deal that's being presented by the president